In the four years since Governor Glenn Youngkin’s pivotal 2021 victory, Virginia conservatives have scored massive wins against leftism on college campuses. But with voters heading to the polls on Tuesday, new footage shows that the remnants of diversity, equity, and inclusion may be quietly re-emerging at its flagship university.
In an undercover video obtained by The Daily Wire, a University of Virginia official is caught saying that the “DEI office has been changed in name,” only before laying out how DEI programs continue to be pushed at the university in other ways.
“The DEI office has been changed in name, and I think [it&#8217;s] probably going to be a little more taken down,” said Alex Winkowski, the assistant dean and director of fraternity and sorority life. “But like the Multicultural Student Services unit is still here. It wasn&#8217;t called DEI. I mean that&#8217;s why it wasn&#8217;t really touched for a while. People didn&#8217;t know where to look.”
“People think everything that’s DEI is called DEI, which is bonkers to me,” the assistant dean added. Asked if the Multicultural Student Center is a “safe haven” for DEI, Winkowski replied, “Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah.”
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The hidden-camera video was recorded in August, five months after UVA’s Board of Visitors <a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2025/march/name-1042455-en.html">voted</a> to dissolve the university’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Partnerships.
The topic has been a hot-button issue at UVA in recent months. After the Trump administration began investigating colleges for pushing discriminatory programs and pressuring Virginia to end its DEI office, the university’s president, Jim Ryan, resigned. The Department of Justice <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/uva-president-resigns-jim-ryan-trump.html">reportedly</a> demanded that Ryan resign to help settle an investigation into the university’s DEI practices. It’s still without a permanent replacement, months into the academic year.
In March, Governor Youngkin and Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares praised UVA’s Board of Visitors for voting to close the school’s DEI office and “end illegal discriminatory practices.” The university also entered into an <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-agreement-university-virginia-0">agreement</a> with the Department of Justice last month, vowing that it would “not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities.” Virginia also promised to provide the DOJ with quarterly data on its programming through 2028, adding that the university’s president “will personally certify each quarter that UVA is in compliance with the agreement.”
According to Winkowski, however, UVA’s Multicultural Student Center offers a cover for DEI programs to continue at the school. The Multicultural Student Center offers students a space where they can study or meet with other students. The center aims to “build community and encourage connection across diverse experiences.” The Multicultural Center is one of many student centers offered by Multicultural Student Services, a department that is dedicated to promoting diversity among the student body. The other student centers include the LGBTQ Center, Latinx Student Center, Interfaith Student Center, and Asian American Student Center.
“The LGBTQ Center here is very, very supported by alumni, to the point where they looked at the alumni support here and scholarships and [found] that we give more money than Harvard does to LGBTQ students who go here,” Winkowski said.
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Winkowski has spent much of his time at UVA developing “LGBTQ-related programs,” according to his <a href="https://studentaffairs.virginia.edu/staff/alex-winkowski">bio</a> on the university’s website. Winkowski’s bio refers to him as “they.”
The University of Virginia told The Daily Wire that Winkowski’s comments “do not represent official University policies or positions.”
“Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Students for Fair Admissions case and the federal administration’s issuance of related guidance, the University developed its own guidance for UVA schools and units to make clear that UVA does not tolerate discrimination in any form and that all programs, events, and spaces must be not only open, but genuinely welcoming to all people, regardless of race or other characteristics,” said university spokesman Brian Coy. “As part of that effort, the University has renamed some spaces, programs, and events in an effort to make absolutely clear that they are open and welcoming to all people.”
Coy added that Winkowski’s statements are not related “in any way” to the school’s agreement with the DOJ, adding that UVA remains committed to upholding the agreement.
“This hidden camera video was taken well before the University entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to suspend multiple civil rights violations and the content captured does not relate in any way to that agreement,” the spokesman said. “The agreement in question suspends 5 Department of Justice investigations and commits the University to follow the DOJ’s guidance on U.S. civil rights laws, as long as they are consistent with judicial decisions. The University is committed to honoring that agreement.”
The Daily Wire also asked UVA how it ensures that faculty and staff are following the DOJ’s guidance and not attempting to push DEI goals under other names. UVA has not responded to that question.
Winkowski’s comments are yet another example of how university administrators and faculty continue to prioritize DEI despite the Trump administration opening investigations into dozens of schools for alleged discriminatory practices. Earlier this year, The Daily Wire obtained a video showing a Vanderbilt University administrator admitting that the school is actively pursuing DEI goals, which would be in violation of President Donald Trump’s executive order on DEI.
“All the things that I would say are components of DEI work are part of what we do. Even if we don’t label everything as DEI work,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-video-vanderbilt-administrator-caught-saying-dei-remains-part-of-what-we-do">said</a> G.L. Black, Vanderbilt’s vice provost for student affairs and dean of students. After The Daily Wire published an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-video-vanderbilt-administrator-caught-saying-dei-remains-part-of-what-we-do">article</a> on Black’s comments, Vanderbilt released a statement saying that it hired the law firm Baker Donelson, which “will be tasked with reviewing the specific circumstances related to the recordings and identifying steps the university can take to ensure all employees fully understand the university’s policies and consistently act in accordance.”
A University of Tennessee department head was also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-tennessee-department-head-boasts-of-dei-flying-under-the-radar-in-red-state">caught on camera</a> boasting about DEI flying under the radar after the Trump administration’s crackdown. Casey A. Barrio Minton, professor and department head of counselor education, said that Tennessee’s “Access and Engagement” office, which used to be called the “Diversity and Inclusion” office, continues to push DEI.
In September, a controversy erupted at Texas A&amp;M when a video obtained by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-am-president-to-resign-after-leftist-politics-infiltrated-university-childrens-lit-course">The Daily Wire</a> showed an English professor pushing pro-LGBT talking points during a children’s literature course that devoted considerable attention to sex, gender, and “queerness.” Texas A&amp;M President Mark Welsh resigned after he was criticized for how he handled the controversy.

DEI/UVA

University Of Virginia Has Pledged To Purge DEI, But Undercover Video Shows It May Still Be Hiding On Campus

Trump Administration

University of Virginia

Virginia

The Department of Justice warned multiple top Democratic California politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of potential charges on Thursday, after Pelosi suggested that federal immigration agents could be arrested by state and local police.
Earlier this week, Pelosi, along with Democratic Rep. Kevin Mullin, <a href="https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-mullin-statement-reports-planned-federal-immigration-operation-bay-area">threatened</a> that ICE agents could be detained as President Donald Trump considered a major immigration operation in San Francisco. In response, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche sent a letter to Newsom, Pelosi, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, urging them to &#8220;abandon this apparent criminal conspiracy.&#8221;
&#8220;The Department of Justice views any arrests of federal agents and officers in the performance of their official duties as both illegal and futile,&#8221; Blanche wrote. The deputy attorney general then cited multiple federal laws that prohibit interfering with federal law enforcement operations.
The California Democrats addressed in the letter were told to &#8220;preserve all written and electronic communications and records related to any attempts to or efforts to impede or obstruct federal law enforcement officials.&#8221;
&#8220;We urge you and other California officials to publicly abandon this apparent criminal conspiracy, to stop threatening law enforcement, and to prioritize the safety of your citizens,&#8221; Blanche added. &#8220;In the meantime, federal agents and officers will continue to enforce federal law and will not be deterred by the threat of arrest by California authorities who have abdicated their duty to protect their constituents.&#8221;
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California politicians want to arrest federal agents for enforcing federal law. 
We just sent them a letter: Stand down or face prosecution. 
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1981528588516987011">told</a> Fox News host Jesse Watters Thursday night that if Democratic officials are telling state and local police to arrest ICE officers, they will face charges.
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&#8220;If they think I won’t [charge them], they have not met me,&#8221; Bondi added. &#8220;Because we will charge them if they are violating the law. We will protect our federal agents.&#8221;
Pelosi and Mullin, who both represent parts of the Bay Area, wrote in a <a href="https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-mullin-statement-reports-planned-federal-immigration-operation-bay-area">press release</a> on Wednesday that California law &#8220;prevents federal agents from taking certain actions.&#8221; The Democratic lawmakers added, &#8220;Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law — and if they are convicted, the President cannot pardon them.&#8221;
California Democrats have also moved to make ICE agents show their faces while on the job. Late last month, Newsom signed a bill into law that bans ICE agents from wearing masks during arrests. The bill was signed as federal immigration agents face a massive increase in attacks on them, including shootings and car rammings. ICE sources told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nice-try-gavin-newsom-cant-stop-ice-agents-from-wearing-masks-sources-say">The Daily Wire</a> that the new California law would not apply to the federal officers, and U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli told “Fox &amp; Friends” that California “does not and cannot have jurisdiction” over the federal agents.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-target-san-francisco-with-immigration-raids">announced</a> on Monday that the Trump administration would soon target San Francisco as part of its crackdown on crime and illegal immigrants. However, after Trump said some of his friends in San Francisco urged him to hold off on the federal law enforcement &#8220;surge,&#8221; the president had a phone call with Democratic San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and decided to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-off-deployment-of-federal-agents-to-san-francisco">hold off</a> on the operation.
“The Federal Government was preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1981406531926315028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">wrote</a> on Truth Social Thursday. “I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around. I told him I think he is making a mistake, because we can do it much faster, and remove the criminals that the Law does not permit him to remove.”
Jennie Taer contributed to this report.

Nancy Pelosi/Gavin Newsom

Trump Admin Warns California Democrats: Arresting ICE Agents Is A ‘Criminal Conspiracy’

California

Crime

Donald Trump

Gavin Newsom

Illegal Immigation

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Nancy Pelosi

Pam Bondi

Politics

San Francisco

Portland Trail Blazers head coach and former Detroit Pistons legendary point guard Chauncey Billups was arrested by the FBI on Thursday morning to face charges related to his alleged role in a “complex fraud scheme to rig, or cheat at, illegal poker games” throughout the United States.
Billups, along with more than 30 other defendants, was charged in connection with the illegal poker scheme that allegedly cheated victims out of millions of dollars. The DOJ tied some of the illegal poker games to New York mafia families, who are also implicated in an indictment unsealed on Thursday.
In April 2019, Billups — along with defendants Eric Earnest, Jaimie Gilet, Robert Stroud, and Sophia Wei — set up a rigged poker game in Las Vegas and proceeded to defraud victims of at least $50,000, according to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/media/1416616/dl">indictment</a>. Billups and the other co-defendants allegedly used a card-shuffling machine rigged to read the cards in the deck and then send the information to an off-site operator over interstate wires. The off-site operator then communicated via phone with someone at the table, called the “quarterback,” who was charged with using secret signals to pass that information along to the others who were in on the rigging, the feds allege.
The rigged shuffling machine was provided to Billups and the other co-conspirators in Las Vegas by defendant Robert Stroud, the indictment states. In 2023, Stroud allegedly conspired with other defendants to rob a person at gunpoint to steal a specific model of a rigged shuffling machine that they wanted to use for poker games.
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United States Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nba-scandal-erupts-feds-nab-player-coach-in-illegal-gambling-crackdown?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=NBA+Scandal+Erupts%3A+Feds+Nab+Player%2C+Coach+In+Illegal+Gambling+Crackdown">alleged</a> at a press conference on Thursday morning that Billups was vital to the rigged poker game because victims, known as “fish,” would be lured into the games “by the chance to play alongside former professional athletes, who were known as ‘Face Cards.’” The victims believed they were playing in “straight” illegal poker games, unknowingly sitting down at a table filled with conspirators in a fraud scheme, the indictment alleges.
The cheaters also used technologies, such as hidden cameras and an X-ray table that had the ability to read cards placed face down on the table, Nocella said. The rigged poker games in New York City were often overseen by the Bonanno, Lucchese, Gambino, and Genovese crime families, who took a cut of the proceeds and “used threats and intimidation to assure payment of debts” from the rigged poker games, according to the indictment.
“The defendants laundered their proceeds including through cash exchanges, the use of multiple shell companies, and through cryptocurrency transfers,” Nocella added.
Billups, an NBA champion who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last year, faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He is expected to make his first court appearance in Portland on Thursday.
The illegal poker scheme indictment was announced alongside another indictment, which alleges that six people, including a current and former NBA player, revealed insider information to gamblers. Billups was not charged in the alleged illegal sports betting scheme, but multiple people were implicated in both indictments, including former NBA player and assistant coach Damon Jones.

Chauncey Billups

NBA Hall-Of-Famer Chauncey Billups Tied To ‘Complex’ Mafia Poker Scheme. These Are The Allegations.

NBA Hall-Of-Famer Chauncey Billups Tied To 'Complex' Mafia Poker Scheme. These Are The Allegations.

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NBA point guard Terry Rozier tipped off gamblers that he would take himself out of a game early in March of 2023 so they could place bets on him to underperform the betting lines, according to a DOJ indictment unsealed on Thursday.
The feds allege that on March 23, 2023, Rozier informed co-defendant Deniro Laster that he would remove himself from a game against the New Orleans Pelicans in the first quarter over a &#8220;supposed injury.&#8221; Laster then sold the information Rozier shared with him to multiple co-conspirators, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-betting-scheme-indictment.html">indictment</a>.
One of the co-conspirators who allegedly paid for the information on Rozier was Marves Fairley, a Mississippi man who sells sports betting tips on social media. Fairley and a person referred to as &#8220;Co-Conspirator 1&#8221; agreed to pay Laster $100,000 from their gambling winnings, the feds allege.
&#8220;Prior to the March 23 game, FAIRLEY, LASTER and Co-Conspirator 1 exchanged text messages confirming that ROZIER planned to exit the game prematurely and confirming their plan to place wagers on ROZIER&#8217;s under (i.e. that ROZIER would underperform relative to the oddsmakers&#8217; betting lines for his individual performance),&#8221; the indictment reads.
Rozier, one of the leading scorers on the Hornets that season, left the game after playing less than 10 minutes and recording just 5 points and two assists.
&#8220;ROZIER&#8217;s early exit from the March 23 game and his related underperformance relative to his season averages for points, assists, and three-pointers resulted in the success of numerous fraudulent wagers placed on ROZIER&#8217;s unders by the defendants and their co-conspirators,&#8221; the indictment continues.
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Rozier&#8217;s alleged involvement in the conspiracy included the NBA player paying for Laster to travel to Philadelphia to collect the payment from Fairley. Laster then drove to Rozier&#8217;s home in Charlotte, where they counted the money that Fairley had paid, according to the indictment.
Rozier, who now plays for the Miami Heat, was previously investigated by the NBA over the March 23 game, but the league ultimately determined that he did nothing wrong. While the NBA concluded its investigation, the DOJ probe continued, until on Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced a massive crackdown on illegal gambling that allegedly implicates four New York mafia families.
“Not only did we crack into the fraud that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but we also entered and executed a system of justice against La Cosa Nostra, to include the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families,&#8221; Patel said.
Former NBA player and coach <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-nba-insider-leaked-lebron-injury-info-for-betting-scheme?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=FBI%3A+NBA+Insider+Leaked+LeBron+Injury+Info+For+Betting+Scheme">Damon Jones</a> was also charged in the indictment along with Rozier. Jones is accused of selling insider information on players&#8217; medical information, so that gamblers could place massive bets before injury reports were made public.

San Antonio Spurs v Charlotte Hornets

NBA Player Tipped Off Gamblers That He’d Leave Game Early With ‘Supposed Injury,’ Feds Say

NBA Player Told Gamblers That He Would Leave Game Early Over 'Supposed Injury,' Feds Say

Former NBA player and coach Damon Jones is accused of attempting to profit from non-public information regarding LeBron James before a Los Angeles Lakers game in 2023, according to a bombshell indictment unsealed by the Department of Justice on Thursday.
Jones, and other defendants in the case — including NBA player Terry Rozier — face charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The federal investigation into the alleged illegal betting scheme also implicates four New York mafia families. United States Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said during a press conference on Thursday that gambling allegations point to &#8220;one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States.”
Before the Lakers played the Milwaukee Bucks on February 9, 2023, Jones texted a co-conspirator to place a bet on the Bucks because he knew that the Lakers would be missing a key player, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-betting-scheme-indictment.html">indictment</a>. The indictment referred to the Lakers player only as &#8220;Player 3,&#8221; but given the details provided and James&#8217;s absence from the February 9, 2023, game, it&#8217;s apparent that &#8220;Player 3&#8221; is James.
&#8220;By virtue of his relationship with Player 3, the Lakers and other NBA personnel, the defendant DAMON JONES had access to non-public information, including medical information that had not been released to the public,&#8221; the indictment reads. Jones was a former teammate and coach of James when the NBA star was playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Before the Lakers played the Bucks in 2023, Jones is accused of texting his inside knowledge of non-public medical information to an unnamed co-conspirator, writing, &#8220;Get a big bet on Milwaukee tonight before the information is out! [Player 3] is out tonight. Bet enough so Djones can eat to [sic] now!!!&#8221;
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When Jones allegedly provided that information to the co-conspirator, James had not yet been ruled out on the injury report, but he would later be sidelined due to a lower-body injury, according to the indictment. James <a href="https://www.nba.com/news/lebron-james-ankle-out-vs-bucks">missed</a> the game against the Bucks due to ankle soreness, and the Bucks went on to win.
In another Lakers game a year later, Jones claimed to have learned that &#8220;Player 4&#8221; for the Lakers would likely be limited in his playing time or would not play well because of an injury, the indictment read. Jones was allegedly paid $2,500 by co-defendant Marves Fairley for the information. Fairley then placed a bet worth around $100,000 against the Lakers at a retail sportsbook, according to the indictment.
After Jones had given out the information, the NBA injury report listed &#8220;Player 4&#8221; as &#8220;probable,&#8221; but it was not publicly reported that he would potentially play a limited number of minutes. Anthony Davis was the only player <a href="https://ak-static.cms.nba.com/referee/injury/Injury-Report_2024-01-15_07PM.pdf">listed</a> as &#8220;probable&#8221; on the NBA&#8217;s injury report for January 15, 2024. Davis ended up playing his normal number of minutes and scored 27 points in a Lakers win over the Oklahoma City Thunder, causing Fairley to ask Jones to pay him back. Jones allegedly doubled down, arguing in text messages that the information he received was credible.

LeBron James/Damon Jones

FBI: NBA Insider Leaked LeBron Injury Info For Betting Scheme

betting

LeBron James

Mafia

U.S.

WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation is &#8220;aware of multiple instances&#8221; of &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protestors explicitly calling for violence, The Daily Wire has learned.
The FBI does not historically confirm active investigations, typically waiting until charges are filed or an arrest is imminent. While FBI spokesman Ben Williamson said that he could not comment on the &#8220;existence of specific investigations,&#8221; the FBI is &#8220;committed to investigating and pursuing all those who threaten and perpetrate acts of violence.”
During the &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests that took place over the weekend across the United States, independent journalists and conservative reporters captured viral video footage showing demonstrators explicitly threatening violence against President Donald Trump, Republicans, and top officials in the Trump administration. Many of these individuals referenced the death of Charlie Kirk.
The Bureau told The Daily Wire that it is “aware of multiple instances&#8221; of these individuals explicitly calling for acts of violence at the No Kings protests.
In Chicago, footage captured by Christopher Sweat depicts a man screaming into a bullhorn about how ICE agents should be killed.
&#8220;You gotta grab a gun, we gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system,&#8221; the man yells. &#8220;These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out. The same machinery that’s on full display right there has to get wiped out.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: Yesterday in Chicago, on the perimeter of the NO KINGS rally, an activists speaking in front of a Progressive Labor Party sign exclaims, “You gotta grab a gun, we gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system. These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out. The same… <a href="https://t.co/zKkiyVKe9J">pic.twitter.com/zKkiyVKe9J</a>
— Christopher Sweat (@SweatEm) <a href="https://twitter.com/SweatEm/status/1979948400771481991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
Other video footage, taken in Seattle by independent journalist Brandi Kruse, shows an individual carrying a sign that reads: &#8220;Would you like to kill Nazis with me?&#8221; Asked who he defines as a Nazi, the man responded: &#8220;Stephen Miller is a Nazi.&#8221;
&#8220;So you&#8217;re gonna kill Stephen Miller?&#8221; the journalist asks him.
&#8220;If I had the chance, yeah I would,&#8221; he responds, grinning and laughing.
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🚨🚨🚨 “Peaceful” No Kings marcher in Seattle tells me he will kill <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenM</a> if he has the chance. <a href="https://t.co/UuiEKvSPGI">pic.twitter.com/UuiEKvSPGI</a>
— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandiKruse/status/1979670326717137159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
Photos posted by the &#8220;Denver Communists&#8221; depict two individuals of ambiguous sex wearing shirts promoting violence. One shirt read: &#8220;Politicians don&#8217;t die like they used to,&#8221; featuring a figure with it&#8217;s head apparently blowing up, live, on camera. The other shirt read: &#8220;Make assassinations great again&#8221; and depicts Donald Trump and other individuals being killed.
The group also made and distributed signs that read: &#8220;Charlie Kirk had it coming, change my mind.&#8221; And the group posted of them: &#8220;Our new signs mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump regime’s demonization of dissent, and the right-wing talking point about paid protestors got overwhelming support. They invited dozens of conversations about anti-fascism, the alt-right podcasting pipeline, and recent attacks of free speech. Lots of protesters went out of their way to claim &#8216;antifa.'&#8221;
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In another Chicago incident, a woman who <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-news/chicago-elementary-teacher-mocks-charlie-kirks-assassination-at-no-kings-protest/">reportedly works as a public school teacher</a> was caught gleefully mocking the killing of Charlie Kirk by repeatedly pretending to shoot herself in the neck when she saw a man driving by with a flag calling Kirk a hero.
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🚨 BREAKING: This woman who mocked and justified the assassination of Charlie Kirk publicly and with glee is reportedly a CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOL teacher.
She must be FIRED if so!
This scum does not belong near our children, period.
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1979980652444360797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Daily Wire found many instances of demonstrators wearing or promoting the slogan &#8220;86 47,&#8221; a phrase notably promoted by former FBI Director James Comey, referencing killing President Trump (the president <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1923354060536647772">said that Comey knew</a> what he was doing when he posted the phrase, telling Fox News: &#8220;That meant assassination.”)
Asked to explain the slogan, one demonstrator in New York <a href="https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1979983965080424595">responded</a>: &#8220;Kill the son of a bitch.&#8221; Pressed to explain who he was referring to, the man responded: &#8220;The 47th president!&#8221;
DHS told Fox News that is investigating the individual.
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🚨 BREAKING: Yesterday in Plattsburgh, NY. A Liberal Man wore a “86 47” shirt and OPENLY called for President Trump’s death. This guy needs to be investigated.
You know what to do X, let’s make him famous! <a href="https://t.co/dcNDHgIBUK">pic.twitter.com/dcNDHgIBUK</a>
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1979983965080424595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
The &#8220;86 47&#8221; signs were  present at rallies all across the United States, including in the nation&#8217;s capitol, where Daily Wire reporters Amber Jo Cooper and Brecca Stoll also reported seeing &#8220;86 47&#8221; signs at &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests in Washington, D.C.
In Pennsylvania, the state&#8217;s Democratic Party Chair in Crawford County was also photographed holding a sign called for Trump to be &#8220;86&#8217;d.&#8221; In Georgia, a social media user <a href="https://x.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1979730428434268433">posted a picture of a man holding</a> an &#8220;86 47&#8221; flag.
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In Portland, Maine, a protestor told The Maine Wire that she wants the president to be dead. It was her birthday, she shared, and she came out to protest the &#8220;nightmare&#8221; that she is living in under Trump.
&#8220;For a birthday present, what do you hope happens? You wake up tomorrow morning&#8230;?&#8221; the interviewer asked her.
&#8220;I hope that I see the obituary that we are all waiting for tomorrow, that&#8217;s what I hope for,&#8221; she responds with a big smile.
&#8220;You&#8230;you wishing that President Trump is dead?&#8221; the interviewer asks with disbelief.
&#8220;Yes! Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely,&#8221; she responds.
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⚡WILD: A No Kings protestor tells us in no uncertain terms that she wants Trump dead: <a href="https://t.co/hSvnerFz75">pic.twitter.com/hSvnerFz75</a>
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMaineWire/status/1979637580963700958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>

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‘Would You Like To Kill Nazis With Me?’ FBI Addresses Threats Of Violence At ‘No Kings’ Protests

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The House Judiciary Committee referred former CIA Director John Brennan for criminal prosecution on Tuesday, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced.
Jordan shared a copy of the referral letter, addressed to Attorney General Pam Bondi, in an X post. &#8220;John Brennan lied to Congress. Today, we referred him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution,&#8221; he commented.
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John Brennan lied to Congress.
Today, we referred him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
Read the full referral here: <a href="https://t.co/NG45lgFWgM">https://t.co/NG45lgFWgM</a> <a href="https://t.co/92BF4BUz4B">pic.twitter.com/92BF4BUz4B</a>
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1980673049906008475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We write to refer significant evidence the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the Committee on the Judiciary on May 11, 2023,&#8221; the letter read in part. &#8220;While testifying, Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.&#8221;
The key point, according to the letter, was that &#8220;Brennan falsely denied that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele Dossier in drafting the post-election Intelligence Community Assessment.&#8221;
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Brennan&#8217;s criminal referral comes in the wake of a similar referral — followed swiftly by an indictment — for former FBI Director James Comey, who was also accused of lying to Congress.
Prior to those referrals, George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30-point-buck-out-in-the-open-jonathan-turley-reveals-whos-vulnerable-to-russiagate-prosecution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley</a> argued that Brennan had the most to fear when it came to the possibility of prosecution with regard to Russiagate: &#8220;It does appear that a couple of these figures may have committed perjury. I think the most vulnerable may be Brennan, who’s like a 30-point buck now out in the open. I mean, this stuff goes directly to information that he gave to Congress. It seems to be in contradiction.&#8221;
&#8220;And so there are real questions here,” he added at the time. “I mean, people talk about, well, you can’t charge Obama. That’s very likely the case. He’s probably protected. But these individuals, whether it’s Comey or Brennan, are not protected from perjury charges if the statute of limitations has not run. They are more likely to be called again to repeat prior testimony.&#8221;

House Intelligence Cmte Holds Hearing On Russian Interference In U.S. Election

Judiciary Committee Refers John Brennan To DOJ For Criminal Prosecution

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In a suspected cyberattack, a shadowy hacking collective has reportedly published the personal information of hundreds of U.S. federal employees, including agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the FBI.
The leak, first reported by <a href="https://www.404media.co/hackers-dox-hundreds-of-dhs-ice-fbi-and-doj-officials/">404 Media</a>, allegedly includes sensitive personal data such as full names, office addresses, and in some cases, home addresses. More than 680 DHS officials, 190 DOJ staff, and 170 FBI employees were affected. Some of the data was shared via encrypted messaging apps like Telegram, where hackers openly mocked their targets and even referenced bounties allegedly offered by Mexican cartels for information on federal agents.
“Mexican Cartels hmu we dropping all the doxes,” one hacker posted, appearing to demand “1m” dollars in exchange for the data. Another post provocatively asked, “U guys want IRS next?” suggesting further leaks may be forthcoming.
The perpetrators behind this breach are believed to be part of a larger, loosely affiliated cybercrime community referred to as “The Com.” This sprawling collective includes members of several groups, such as Scattered Spider, 0ktapus, and LAPSUS$, which have been behind major ransomware and data theft campaigns targeting companies like MGM Resorts, Coinbase, and Twilio.
These groups are “some of the most infamous English-speaking hacking groups operating today,” <a href="https://mashable.com/article/hacker-group-doxxes-ice-fbi-doj-agents">according</a> to Mashable.
The Com has become known for recruiting minors and young adults — often English-speaking teens — and leveraging their knowledge of Western systems and social engineering tactics. This group operates in digital subcultures that glorify online crime, where members boast about scams and violent tactics, including swatting, “brickings” (hiring people to vandalize homes), and robberies.
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Scattered Spider, one of the arms of The Com, has reportedly <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/23/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-scattered-spider-hackers/">collaborated</a> with Russian ransomware gangs like ALPHV/BlackCat. These partnerships blend Western hackers’ fluency in English and social manipulation with the Russians’ technical tools and experience in laundering ransom payments. Their alliance was behind the devastating $100 million <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scattered-spider-blackcat-hackers-ransomware-team-up-60-minutes/">ransomware attack</a> on MGM Resorts in 2023.
According to experts, this doxing incident marks a shift from financially motivated ransomware to direct, politically charged attacks on U.S. government personnel. It also comes amid ongoing concerns from cybersecurity officials that groups like the Com represent an escalating national security threat, especially when working with foreign adversaries.
Authorities have arrested several individuals connected to the Com and its subgroups, including a 17-year-old in the UK and several Americans in their early 20s. However, many remain at large, and experts warn that the decentralized nature of these groups — operating across encrypted apps and online gaming platforms — makes them exceptionally difficult to dismantle.
As investigations continue, cybersecurity experts caution that this leak could lead to real-world harm against federal employees and may signal a broader trend of hackers weaponizing personal data for political, ideological, or financial gain.

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Hackers Dox Hundreds Of Federal Agents In Suspected Cyberattack

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WASHINGTON—The government shutdown is not slowing down President Donald Trump&#8217;s Justice Department.
Over the course of the last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi&#8217;s team successfully pressured Facebook to remove a page targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, brought <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/two-men-involved-in-ice-attack-in-north-texas-officially-charged-and-linked-to-antifa-terrorism/">Antifa-related terrorism charges</a> in the Texas attack on ICE officers, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chairman-prince-group-indicted-operating-cambodian-forced-labor-scam-compounds-engaged">seized $15 billion</a> in Bitcoin from a massive &#8220;pig butchering&#8221; scam, and, perhaps most significantly, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bolton-turns-himself-in-pleads-not-guilty-in-espionage-case-over-classified-documents">secured an indictment charging</a> former National Security Advisor John Bolton with crimes related to the mishandling of classified information, including eight counts of transmission of national defense information and 10 counts of unlawful retention of NDI.
&#8220;From restoring one tier of justice, to making key arrests, to ongoing successful surges in Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice are advancing President Trump’s agenda and Making America Safe Again,&#8221; Justice Department spokesman Gates McGavick told The Daily Wire.
In another significant move, the Justice Department also arrested a 33-year-old man, Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi, a Gazan living in Louisiana, for alleged involvement in the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
“After hiding out in the United States, this monster has been found and charged with participating in the atrocities of October 7 — the single deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Bondi said in a statement first obtained by The Daily Wire.
“While nothing can fully heal the scars left by Hamas’s brutal attack, this Department’s Joint Task Force October 7 is dedicated to finding and prosecuting those responsible for that horrific day, including the murder of dozens of American citizens,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;We will continue to stand by Jewish Americans and Jewish people around the world against anti-Semitism and terrorism in all its forms.”
<div id="attachment_987679" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-doj-plows-on-despite-shutdown-with-bolton-indictment-arrest-of-monster-hamas-supporter/palestinian-israel-gaza-conflict-3" rel="attachment wp-att-987679"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-987679" class="wp-image-987679 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1712195383-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1712195383-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1712195383-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1712195383-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1712195383.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Hamas kidnaps an Israeli woman on October 7,  2023. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
Al-Muhtadi learned about the &#8220;unfolding&#8221; attack on October 7, 2023, and &#8220;sprang into action,&#8221; arming himself, recruiting other marauders, and entering Israel, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg shared on Friday. Eisenberg said there is &#8220;evidence placing him near one of the worst-hit Israeli communities.&#8221;
“Subsequently,&#8221; Eisenberg said, &#8220;Al-Muhtadi fraudulently obtained a visa to enter the United States where he hoped to remain undetected. This arrest is but the first public step in bringing to justice those responsible for harming Americans on that day.”
The Justice Department wants this arrest to serve as a reminder that those who commit acts of terrorism cannot escape justice by hiding in American communities. In a press release, the DOJ says that Al-Muhtadi is an operative for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s (DFLP) military wing, known as the National Resistance Brigades or the Martyr Umar al-Qasim Forces, a &#8220;Gaza-based paramilitary group that participated in the Hamas-led terrorist attack against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_987677" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-doj-plows-on-despite-shutdown-with-bolton-indictment-arrest-of-monster-hamas-supporter/israel-gaza-conflict-3" rel="attachment wp-att-987677"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-987677" class="wp-image-987677 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1711949850-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1711949850-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1711949850-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1711949850-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/GettyImages-1711949850.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Hamas militants of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades move towards the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)</div>
Al-Muhtadi crossed into Israel with the intention of helping Hamas in their terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, the DOJ said, and his phone &#8220;utilized&#8221; a cell tower near the Kibbutz Kfar Aza in Israel, where Hamas massacred dozens of Israelis and four American citizens.
&#8220;In addition, Al-Muhtadi allegedly provided false information in his U.S. visa application relating to his involvement with a paramilitary organization, connection to Hamas, participation in a terrorist attack, and military training,&#8221; the DOJ says in a release. &#8220;Al-Muhtadi swore to the accuracy of numerous materially false statements in his visa application with respect to at least his affiliation with DFLP, the NRB, and Hamas, his training, and his involvement in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.&#8221;
He entered the United States on September 12, 2024, the Justice Department said.

President Trump Holds Press Conference With FBI Director Kash Patel

Trump’s DOJ Plows On Despite Shutdown With Bolton Indictment, Arrest Of ‘Monster’ Hamas Supporter

Former President Barack Obama triggered a virtual wave of backlash on Monday when a video clip went viral showing him calling for a Justice Department, FBI, and court system free from the &#8220;meddling&#8221; of politicians.
Obama joined comedian and podcast host Marc Maron for his final episode — and in an obvious attempt to attack Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations under President Donald Trump, he accidentally delivered a knockout punch to his own administration.
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Barack Obama: &#8220;We don&#8217;t want kangaroo courts and trumped up charges. We want our court system and our DOJ and FBI to be playing things straight and not meddling in politics.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/7gJMWGCsO4">pic.twitter.com/7gJMWGCsO4</a>
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1977893320048230855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;That’s not who we are. That’s not our idea of America,&#8221; Obama said of the crackdown on urban crime — and the use of ICE agents and National Guard troops to keep order. &#8220;We don’t want masked folks with rifles and machine guns patrolling our streets. We want cops on the beat who know the neighborhood and the kids around, and that’s how we keep the peace around here.&#8221;
He pivoted to the court system then, adding, &#8220;We don’t want kangaroo courts and trumped up charges. That’s what happens in other places that we used to scold for doing that. We want our court system and our Justice Department and our prosecutors and our FBI to be, just playing things straight and looking at the facts and not meddling in politics the way we’ve seen lately. And I think if enough people start not to being in a fetal position, but also not being &#8212; just not worrying about it and and detached from it, but being vigilant, but also saying, you know what – yeah, we can stand up to this. We can call it like we see it. We need people who have whatever platforms they have to be able to say, no, that’s not who we are, and to be willing to get attacked on X by whoever for doing that. And it’s not easy.&#8221;
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But critics were quick to point out that the federal government under Obama had been highly politicized, from lawsuits targeting the Little Sisters of the Poor and an Internal Revenue Service weaponized against conservatives to the Justice Department&#8217;s politically-driven investigation into President Donald Trump.
&#8220;Irony alert,&#8221; Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) posted.
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🚨 Irony alert. <a href="https://t.co/vgNuVmM7Bq">https://t.co/vgNuVmM7Bq</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1977946000116371628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He’s desperate. His legacy is trash and he knows it,&#8221; Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) added.
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He’s desperate. 
His legacy is trash and he knows it. <a href="https://t.co/k9ocR7uAax">https://t.co/k9ocR7uAax</a>
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1978076668381016545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) added, &#8220;Says the guy who presided over the fabrication of the Russian collusion narrative and the IRS targeting of conservatives &#8230;&#8221;
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Says the guy who presided over the fabrication of the Russian collusion narrative and the IRS targeting of conservatives… <a href="https://t.co/7DNVilkfOR">https://t.co/7DNVilkfOR</a>
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1978240382711247118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) added, &#8220;Barack Obama has no business lecturing anyone about &#8216;playing things straight.&#8217; Under Obama’s watch: His IRS targeted conservatives; His DOJ spied on reporters; His FBI wiretapped the Trump campaign; His administration pushed the Russiagate hoax against Trump. Obama set the standard for political meddling, and thank goodness President Trump is there to clean up the mess he and Biden left behind.&#8221;
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Barack Obama has no business lecturing anyone about “playing things straight.”
Under Obama’s watch: 
&#8211; His IRS targeted conservatives 
&#8211; His DOJ spied on reporters 
&#8211; His FBI wiretapped the Trump campaign 
&#8211; His administration pushed the Russiagate hoax against Trump
Obama set the… <a href="https://t.co/oHXU9kDtn3">https://t.co/oHXU9kDtn3</a>
— Congressman Greg Steube (@RepGregSteube) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGregSteube/status/1978116299608789165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The audacity of hypocrites like @barackobama is breathtaking, after what he did to his political opponents,&#8221; actor Nick Searcy commented.
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The audacity of hypocrites like <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@barackobama</a> is breathtaking, after what he did to his political opponents. <a href="https://t.co/5l50a5iCRM">https://t.co/5l50a5iCRM</a>
— Nick Searcy, Actor/Director/Producer/Author (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1978139743637385618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is parody, right?&#8221; Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) asked.
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This is parody, right? <a href="https://t.co/3XlteEGMex">https://t.co/3XlteEGMex</a>
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1977955922040537103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former President Barack Obama Campaigns For Democrats In Milwaukee

‘Irony Alert’: Barack Obama Ridiculed For Saying Politics Has No Place In Courts, DOJ

'Irony Alert': Barack Obama Ridiculed For Saying Politics Has No Place In Courts, DOJ

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WASHINGTON — Kash Patel&#8217;s announcement that the FBI was cutting all ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center followed a letter from top conservative leaders urging the White House to distance itself from the group, The Daily Wire has learned.
&#8220;Enough is enough,&#8221; the leaders wrote to White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley in a previously unreported letter. &#8220;The SPLC&#8217;s defamatory Hate Map should no longer be used by federal agencies as a fig leaf to mask discrimination against conservatives.&#8221;
The letter specifically called for President Donald Trump to issue an executive order removing any SPLC data from all federal agency websites and work, to block future use of the SPLC data on federal agency websites and work, and to block federal funds from going to government contractors who use the SPLC&#8217;s work to determine what organizations they will work with.
Moms for Liberty CEO Tina Descovich led the effort, joined by Turning Point Action&#8217;s Tyler Bower, Dr. Ben Carson, Alliance Defending Freedom President Kristen Waggoner, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, WallBuilders founder David Barton, Liberty Counsel&#8217;s founder Matthew Staver, Gays Against Groomers&#8217;s Jaimee Michell, and New Discourses founder James Lindsay.
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The signatories argued that the SPLC has become so &#8220;biased, politicized, and unmoored from its original mission that it has begun placing traditional value and faith-based organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, Liberty Counsel and the Family Research Council on its Hate Map&#8221; — a map that tracks over 1400 individuals and groups that it deems hateful and extremist and classes with the Ku Klux Klan.
That list included Charlie Kirk and the organization he founded, Turning Point USA.
&#8220;Just a few months ago, the SPLC ran a feature article viciously attacking Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk for advocating for President Trump’s agenda on such issues as faith and the reality of biological sex,&#8221; the leaders wrote in their letter. &#8220;This would be laughable if the consequences of this reckless and dishonest behavior were not so deadly serious.&#8221;
Months later, Kirk was killed by a radical assassin who targeted the TPUSA founder for his political beliefs.
The SPLC once did &#8220;good work&#8221; fighting segregation in the South, the leaders noted. But less than a decade after its founding, &#8220;it egregiously strayed from its mission, declining today into what Politico has described as &#8216;more of a partisan progressive hit operation than a civil rights watchdog.'&#8221; In recent years, a number of radical left-wing terrorists have specifically cited the organization as their motivation to commit violence against Christians and conservatives.
In 2012, an attempted mass murderer made a plan to &#8220;stride into&#8221; the Family Research Council&#8217;s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to &#8220;open fire on the people inside in an effort to kill as many people as possible,&#8221; the letter argued. That gunman specifically said he was motivated by the SPLC, which had listed the Family Research Council as a hate group.
The SPLC hate designation was also cited as the reason for the riot and assault of a female professor at Middlebury College in 2017, the leaders argued.
&#8220;More recently, an SPLC staff attorney was arrested and charged in 2023 with domestic terrorism for his involvement in a violent riot against Atlanta police officers. The SPLC responded by condemning the arrests as &#8216;heavy-handed law enforcement intervention against protestors.'&#8221;
But the most &#8220;stunning&#8221; fact about the SPLC&#8217;s &#8220;Hate Map,&#8221; they argued, is &#8220;neither its rank dishonesty nor its transparent bias against SPLC’s conservative political enemies, but the fact that anyone would ever rely upon it to make significant policy decisions.&#8221;
&#8220;And yet, federal government agencies have utilized SPLC data and analysis in their work product, resulting in the stigmatization of lawful organizations advocating for views well within the American tradition.&#8221;
&#8220;For example,&#8221; they said, &#8220;the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has utilized SPLC materials to label traditional Catholics, among others, as radical extremists. The most recent known report, created by the FBI’s Richmond Field Office, used the SPLC as a source to label traditional Catholic groups as hate groups, and was sent to over 1,000 FBI employees nationally.&#8221;
Their efforts appear to have been successful.
On Friday, as The Daily Signal&#8217;s Tyler O&#8217;Neill first reported, the FBI severed all ties to the SPLC.
&#8220;The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,&#8221; FBI Director Kash Patel said in a Friday statement. &#8220;Their so-called &#8216;hate map&#8217; has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.&#8221;
&#8220;In April, during our Anti-Christian Bias Panel, I made it clear that the FBI will never rely on politicized or agenda-driven intelligence from outside groups — and certainly not from the SPLC,&#8221; Patel added. &#8220;Under this FBI, all ties with the SPLC have officially been terminated.&#8221;
The FBI confirmed to The Daily Signal that it has no intelligence products from the SPLC and that it no longer engages with the far-Left group. The news comes just days after Patel shared that the FBI had also severed ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that purports to oppose antisemitism but also has condemned critics of transgender ideology, including The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh.

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It was a long time coming.
On Thursday, it was announced that a grand jury had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-brief-comey-charged-ice-shooter-investigated-californias-crime-wave-intensifies?author=Morning+Wire&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=12&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Morning+Brief%3A+Comey+Charged%2C+ICE+Shooter+Investigated+%26+California%E2%80%99s+Crime+Wave+Intensifies">indicted</a> a longtime target of President Trump&#8217;s, former FBI director James Comey.
James Comey has been on President Trump&#8217;s so-called target list for a very long time, going all the way back to when President Trump fired him during his first term. He fired him because James Comey almost certainly bootstrapped into the press the so-called Steele dossier. He promoted the Trump/Russia collusion hoax. He was deeply involved in every aspect of that — up to and including the use of the Steele dossier — in documents that were presented directly to President Trump, which was then used as an excuse by the media to push the Steele dossier, a compendium of lies about President Trump, into public view.
There have been open questions about whether James Comey, over the intervening years in which he testified repeatedly in front of Congress, among others, had actually committed perjury.
It is a very, very, very short indictment, a page and a half maximum. It accuses Comey by stating he “did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the Government of the United States, by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he, James B. Comey Jr., had not ‘authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports’ regarding an FBI investigation concerning” President Trump.
The indictment continues, “That statement was false, because, as James B. Comey Jr. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning” Trump.
The allegation is that there was a person lower down at the FBI who leaked to the press details involving the investigation into President Trump, and it is suggested that the person was authorized by Comey illegally to do that, and Comey subsequently lied about it. Or, if he had the authority to authorize the leak, he lied about it.
That lie is count one, which is the perjury charge. Count two is obstruction of a congressional proceeding, saying then on that same date, based on that same testimony, Comey did “corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which an investigation was being had before the Senate Judiciary Committee by making false and misleading statements before that committee.”
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That is the entirety of the indictment. It is very specific. It is presumably about one or two lines in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The reason it&#8217;s being brought so quickly is because there&#8217;s a five-year statute of limitations on perjury charges. Comey’s testimony was September 30, 2020. It is now September 26, 2025, so we are about to expire on that statute of limitations.
It appears from much of the public information that this isn&#8217;t a particularly well-predicated indictment, and the indictment itself is quite weak and that it&#8217;s unlikely to survive in court.
Many of the things mentioned for the possibility of indictment of Comey are immoral and display ethics much worse than this.
But that&#8217;s not what he&#8217;s being indicted for.
At the end of the day, the indictment that&#8217;s left is pretty simple. Comey either lied about leaking to The New York Times in a tantrum because he was getting fired or he didn&#8217;t.
James Comey has decided to do what no one should ever do when hit with an indictment, which is to go directly on camera and talk. First rule of lawyering: Tell your client to shut the hell up.
But Comey <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/25/defiant-comey-video-defense-donald-trump-00581806">publicly stated</a>: 
<blockquote>My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn&#8217;t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees. And you shouldn&#8217;t either. Somebody that I love dearly, recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant. And she&#8217;s right. But I&#8217;m not afraid. And I hope you&#8217;re not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I&#8217;m innocent. So let&#8217;s have a trial. And keep the faith.</blockquote>
He is simply the worst. Such a self-aggrandizing ridiculous figure.
This person had brought our country to the brink — in terms of the Justice Department, the FBI — for basically a decade, and it turns out he was one of the most ridiculous figures in the history of American public service. Truly a ridiculous figure, not only blowing the Hillary Clinton investigation, but blowing the Donald Trump investigation, manipulating the release, effectively, of the Steele dossier, and then using his perch as the guy who got fired by Donald Trump in order to launch salvos at Donald Trump over and over and over again, while walking through the forest and taking selfies of himself, or walking on the beach and taking pictures of shells on the beach, saying, “86 Donald Trump.”
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So don&#8217;t mistake my questions about the indictment, that I somehow believe that James Comey is deserving of tremendous sympathy. I do not think that James Comey is worthy of tremendous sympathy. He was an awful director of the FBI, a joke of a public figure, and his “I&#8217;m standing up to authority. I am the hero standing in the breach” posturing is silly.
He&#8217;s just a silly, silly person. That doesn&#8217;t speak to whether the criminal indictment that is being brought here is weak or strong.
We&#8217;ll see what the underlying evidence looks like on the face of it.
But as far as personal sympathy for James Comey?
The guy is a schmuck.

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